KONRAD BALDER SCHÄUFFELENOBJEKT SPRÅK SPRÅK-OBJEKT30.03 - 8.04.1973

Galerie S:t Petri
S:t Petri Kyrkogata 5
Lund
046/14 78 00

Object-language – language-objects is what Konrad Balder Schäuffelen calls his exhibition, which will be shown at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from 30 March to 18 April 1973.
This is the first time that this Munich-based artist is exhibiting at all in Sweden.

Schäuffelen studied medicine and philosophy in Germany and France. Between 1966 and 1970, he worked as a psychiatrist at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. He is still a practicing psychiatrist.

Schäuffelen is interested in the dual functions of words. Beyond their semantic meaning, words also have an intrinsic value as symbols. Words are not only used to clarify and explain; they are also often used with the aim of confusing and obscuring, for example, by bureaucrats and other authorities.

The exhibited language-objects are poetic images, belonging to the field between literature and visual art.